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Blessedby Warren Lane
This blood-soaked satirical commercial pushes the new Christian spirit board, which not only boasts direct communication with God Almighty, but also spells out who must be sacrificed in order for its user to become blessed.
Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Swoliosisby Jim Kowalski
A gym attendant hosts an underground fitness competition to avoid losing his bankrupt gym and his crush.
Genre: Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Just No Beyondby Roberta M Roy
Environmentalist interior designer Alyssa May struggles with the looming question of plastic in her life, taking one small step despite recognizing there is no beyond.
Genre: Family
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Kid nappingby Kerens
What could happen when Peter, 25, lost his fiance and son during a miscarriage meets Julian, nepo baby, father businessman, mother surgeon, who never knows the joy of parenthood, because his parents have time for him?
Genre: Family
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Ringby Daniel Yanev
A man has seemingly lost everything, including his will to live.
Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
WTF?by Sherrie Presson
When an aging maintenance worker goes on a killing rampage in an apartment complex, an unsuspecting man looking for an apartment takes the fall. Produced screenwriter: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4977524/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_1_wr
Genre: Horror
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
La Fuente (The Fountain)by Marjory E. Leposky
Two children meet at a fountain.
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cycleby Stephanie Neroes
Haunted by the violence of his upbringing, a boy's fateful act forces a reckoning with the ghosts of his family's pastand the chilling truth that some wounds are born, not made.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cell Matesby Anthony Cawood
A new inmate learns her prison cell is haunted by a brutal male spirit, forcing her into a deadly struggle for survival against the unseen.
Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Returningby Susie Schecter
After the tragic accidental death of her four-year-old child, a grieving mother is given an unexpected miracle when her daughter mysteriously returns from the dead, but struggles to understand and cope with the supernatural gift.
Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mr. Bowling Ballby Simon Parker
When a young boy takes his father's advice to be bold with his comedy a bit too seriously, he ends up accidentally traumatizing his boss with a literal interpretation, turning a simple office skit into an unforgettable disaster
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Clusterby Kevin Dembinsky
A story of two people meeting on their way to Switzerland before both going to a euthanasia facility.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beauty in the Ringby Jessica Taylor
An injured MMA fighter on the brink of losing everything crosses paths with a broken ballet dancer recovering from a violent assault. Together they discover strength, redemption, and love as she trains to fight in the ring and he learns how to fight for her heart.
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Almost By Designby Roberta M Roy
When her web of reality moves a young environmentalist Midwestern interior designer to seek employment as a home decor designer in New York City, she lands among a multicultural group whose mismatched goals result in both poetic and situational comedy.
Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadhorse Lickby Charles Hall
A young boy sets out to rid his hometown of a wild animal that has been killing the townspeople's pets, only to wind up becoming its next target.
Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
They All Want The King Deadby NG
Haunted by treachery on all sides, a newly crowned king battles shadowy plots designed to murder him and plunge the kingdom into chaos.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Just Digby Simon Parker
When Weston becomes obsessed with digging in his rundown house's garden, much to the dismay of his wife Nicky and their elderly neighbours, he unearths an alien spaceship buried beneath.
Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Where the Heart Isby Anthony Cawood
The spirit of Christmas must overcome those with hatred in their hearts.
Genre: Family
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Badlandsby Pamela Schott
When a woman who sleepwalks through her entire life being the "perfect" everything daughter, wife, mother, career professional, member of society loses her young son in a drowning accident, she must confront the truth about a brief but liberating affair that calls into question who the real father is and forces her to make an impossible decision.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Strychnineby Bernard Antoine Mersier
A new strand of STD that displays no symptoms places the country in a state of emergency trying to find a cure.
Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Nailsby John Ravitz
A grieving police detective who serves as a Eucharist Minister identifies a mob hitman while serving Holy Communion and must tread the line between the sacred and the need to stop a killer before he kills again.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Golden Scepterby Bobby Banuelos
With the help of his cynical talking cat, a young man must embark on an adventure to retrieve a valuable family heirloom before the evil force that possesses it destroys the world.
Genre: Animation
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby Fausto Politi
In 2221 happiness is a primary asset that can be achieved by whatever means, even with murder. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.
Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan, The Christmas Strangerby Ange Fassinou
Inspired from true events. The destiny of a little boy, victim of abuse, changes when he unexpectedly meets a good-hearted woman on the day before Christmas.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Smells Like Steinbeckby Jason K. Allen
A young man with a passion for pleasant aromas is lured into the underground world of book sniffing. (Could be short or TV pilot. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Next Seatby Steven Burton
A man sits alone in an empty movie theater waiting for a film to begin, and then a woman stranger sits in the seat next to him. They have a dramatic confrontation while the screening is delayed.
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Still Waterby John Waring
A traumatized veteran retreats to a remote lakeside cabin with the woman he loves, but as his combat past resurfaces, the line between memory and reality begins to collapse.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dark Snowby Ron Micci
A sexually repressed woman in her 30s overcomes her inhibitions when she meets a man at an office Christmas party, then races north to her maiden aunt's cabin in the woods to share the joyous news, only to encounter bitterness and jealousy and a poignant parting of the ways.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Kuzuri: Dark Avengerby NG
Story happens in Japan. When a young man with a superpower and a dark past struggles to keep the city safe and his family's company successful, a woman with a revenge plan comes to destroy everything, leading him to rethink his purposes and bring peace to the city and to himself.
Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Stalingrad, Six Months in Hellby Robert Michael Benn
It's 1943 & the bloodiest battle in history occurs, Stalingrad. Blockbuster with $10 million special effects and cast budget.
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Your Face Is Killing Meby Jason K. Allen
A shallow young man decides to break up with his beautiful, kindhearted girlfriend because of her occasional unattractive facial expression. (1 location, 3 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dollby DJ Robbins
A mysterious elf doll arrives on Helen's front door step on Christmas Eve and weird stuff starts to happen.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spellmarkedby Vanessa M. Chattman
A street thief with a stolen wand accidentally opens a portal into a mirror world and faces her own twisted reflection for control of her destiny.
Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Torch Of Horror; The Muse In The Moonlightby James Massaro
The devil within is in the house of mirrors....
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Lightby Gladman
In a ruined room filled with memories of his lost daughter, a grieving man struggles to keep a single lantern flame aliveuntil one final, impossible spark forces him to confront the moment he chooses hope over despair.
Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Good Conversationby John Porter
A young psychiatrist struggles to have a good conversation with her boyfriend--and finds it with a patient.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Teddy Bearby Anthony Cawood
When a mysterious new neighbor moves in under the cover of darkness, a suburban community's paranoia escalatesculminating in a tragic misunderstanding that blurs the line between protection and prejudice.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ice-Cold Revengeby Elliot Stanton
A 'chance meeting' at a party fails to bring the closure a victim sought from her school bully and even manages to make things worse.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby NG
Feature Length Version Available. On the eve of Christmas, the life of a lonely young boy takes a miraculous turn when he crosses paths with a compassionate woman, unknowingly setting off a battle for his survival, his freedom, and his last chance at hope.
Genre: Other
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Faith: Brought To The Lightby Ange Fassinou
90% of story happens in a house with three principle characters. Inspired from true events. A mother who has lost her faith, rediscovers her purpose when she must help a troubled father with a dark secret.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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